Intended as a supplementary resource for teachers, this paper focuses on using humor to develop students' critical thinking and reading abilities. The paper suggests many newspaper humor activities for predicting word meanings through context clues, including the meanings of words in isolation and in context, in headlines, and in the comics. Next, the paper lists activities that teach inferencing with "W" and "H" questions (What? Why? When? Where? Who? and How?). The paper concludes with activities that show how newspaper humor can be developed as a tool for critical analysis of facts, opinions, and propaganda. (EL)